Annual fall protection inspections and pull tests are mandated by OSHA, ANSI, and often insurance providers to ensure that anchor points, guardrails, and lifelines can support the required loads.

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With cooler temperatures comes earlier sunsets, and an array of stunning colors across the country. However, it's also the beginning of various new challenges for businesses. Fall brings on cold and ...

As temperatures drop and daylight hours shrink, construction sites face increased fall hazards, making proper planning, equipment, and safety culture more critical than ever. Each Fall, construction ...

Over the last thirty years, we have implemented new regulations and have developed ANSI standards addressing work at height activity yet falls continue to be the second leading cause of fatal ...

Providing worker safety on the job site can be a difficult task, due to the constant changes and activity occurring on the average job site. However, the importance of protecting construction workers ...

Fall hazards are one of the most serious and persistent risks in the construction industry, especially in roofing and other construction work at elevation. Whether workers are installing shingles, ...

Largely, the standards most applicable for fall protection in the U.S. have had minimal performance changes over the past 5 years. The most current is the new ANSI/ASSP Z359.14-2021 document that ...

The last earthly contact Siarhei Marhunou had with a construction material was with a 2 x 4 that was part of a protective guardrail on the balcony where he had been installing siding. The barrier had ...

29CFR 1926 Subpart M provides the requirements for fall protection. Section 1926.502 is the meat of Subpart M. It runs for several pages and covers 11 topics. Now we’ll look at the last two topics in ...

Since its creation in 1971, OSHA has made a huge difference in worker safety but not directly. OSHA doesn’t come on site and show people how to work safely. So, what does OSHA do? Among other things, ...